Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-06-10
Senator Vance. accompanied by Mr..

Senator Vance. accompanied by MIR.
Dowd, the North Carolina internal revenue
collector whose district was recently abol-
ished. arrived here to-day. Senator Ran.
som and some of the representatives from
the State will be here to-day or tomorrow.
When they arrive the whole force Will bear
down upon the President and try to make
him revoke the order abollshing Collector
Dowd's district But the President Will tell
them he knows more about the matter than
they do, and that they will find that out
after while; and all hut Senator Vance
and Mr.. Dowd will go away satisGed-at
least they will say so. :,
Can't Simpson, U. 5. a., who produced
such sensation in army circles last year by
hanging woman of bad character, has been
examined and found to be insane, and ID
now on his way from the West to this city,
under guard, and will be confined in The st.
Elizabeth insane asylum here.
The June returns of the Department OF
Agricultural indicate reduction of nearly
two per cent. in the area OF winter wheat.
The spring wheat area has been enlarged
six per cent. from increase OF immigration
and farm making west of the MISSISSIPPI III
the districts traversed by the Northern IA
ciGc railroad Nest of the increase IL IN
Dakota, which reports an Increment OIL
twenty.four per cent. The total area OF
wheat is about 81 ,000, 900 acres, traction OF
one per cent more than that OF the Prev.
ous crop. To the condition of winter wheat
there is no marked change, the average be-
ing 81 9. reduction of nine-tenths OF enc
per cent. In 1856, the June average was
92.7. Reports of short straw are very nu-
of MI thGra ura inHIoQ-
ton that the yield of grain will be larger
proportionaly than Of straw. If there is no
increase from this cause, the yield must be
less than an average The harvest is al
ready in progress up to The thirty eighth
degree of north latitude Condition of
spring wheat is good in Dakota and terrific
ries westward, but below average records in
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa ard Nebraska.
The general average for spring wheat is
81. s, lower than in recent years, but thirteen
poinis higher than in 1881. AT harvest last
year condition averaged 50. Dry weather
in April has been injurious to winter wheat.
Insects have committed greater depreda-
tons than usual. The central belt west
ward from Pennsylvania and Virginia has
suffered local damage from Hessian fly, and
the chinch bug has wrought injury in Hi
nois, Missouri and Kansas.
Mr.. Grandstall, of Edenburg, Shenandoah
county, Virginia, has been appointed to
$1,000 clerkship in the document room OF the
Senate vice Mr. II. II. Mckee of Indiana,
who has bsen promoted to the oilce OF AS
sisiant Librarian, made vacant by the death
of Can't. Frank AlfIiend Mr.. Grandstati is
one of Senator Riddleberger's friends, and
his appointment is doubtless made, not only
to shut ont Mr.. Campbell, for whom the
Senator has been trying 10 get place ever
siuce General Malone removed him, but
also TO prevent the Senator from saying that
he has no share of the Senate's patronage.
Among the strangers in the city to-day is
DIR. Charles W. Chancellor, formerly Of AL.
exandria, but now of Baltimore. The Doc
tor has recently returned from Europe,
where he was sent by the Maryland author
tiles to inspect the different sewerage sys-
TENS in use there and report the best one
for adoption in Maryland. This report has
been prepared and will soon be published.
1t will make volume Of two hundred
pages During his investigations the Doc
tor invented y system of house sewerage,
which be patented to day.
Mr.. Corcoran's condition continues I'M
changed TO external appearances, save
for the loss of sensihility on one side of his
body, he was as we'll the day after he was
stricken with that loss as ho was before he
sustained it, and there has heen no change
since
1t was stated in this correspondence some
days ago that rumor was atloat 10 the eff
feet that though The u. S. Supreme Court
did not render an opinion i'll the telephone
case at its last term It's members had practi
cally agreed upon decision and that it was
adverse to Bell 1t is said to day the result
of the decision will bs TO throw open the
telephone system to all inventors, and rem.
der Bells patent Imperative. 1t is said
that Chief Justice Waite and Justices Miller,
Batchford and Field are against Bell, JUS
tees Harlan and Matthews for him, and
that nobody knows how Justice Bradley
stands. Justice Gray did not sit in the case,
and Justice Woods is dead,
The Presidential party, with tho excep-
tion of the Presidents wife, are expected
here tonight. The White House has been
cleaned up and its carpets replaced by mat.
ting during their absence.